Window Repair & Replacement in Lancaster, OH

Lancaster sits about thirty miles southeast of Columbus, where the flat farmland gives way to the foothills of the Hocking Hills. It is the seat of Fairfield County, and its downtown holds one of the best collections of nineteenth-century architecture in the state. The nine blocks known as Square 13 climb a low hill in Greek Revival, Italianate, and Queen Anne homes, many built of brick burned from local clay and trimmed with locally quarried sandstone. The Sherman House on East Main dates to 1811, and a great many of these homes still wear their original windows.

That is exactly what makes window work here different. The sashes in these old homes are often custom shapes — arched tops, fanlight transoms, and tall double-hungs with true divided lites — set into solid sandstone and brick openings. The glass is frequently the original wavy single-pane stock, and on a designated home the goal is usually to preserve that character, not erase it. In the foothills the freeze-thaw swings are hard on old glazing, and decades of them loosen putty and swell wood until a sash sticks shut. We lean toward repair first: reglazing, rebuilding a rotted rail, freeing a painted-shut sash, or matching a broken pane so the window reads the same from the street.

Lancaster is not only its historic core, though. The Mount Pleasant and Camp Ground neighborhoods are full of early-1900s Craftsman bungalows and farmhouses with wide double-hung windows, and the newer subdivisions out toward River Valley Mall bring 1990s and 2000s builds whose first-generation double panes are now fogging. A failed seal there is usually an insulated glass replacement, and a single cracked pane on a sound frame is a quick glass repair. From the courthouse square out to the east-side subdivisions the drive stays short, so we handle the full spread across town.